Paul mauser



(No Model.)

P. MAUSER.

CARTRIDGE STOP FOR MAGAZINE GUNS. No. 455,514. 'A Patented July '7, 1891.

" NITED STATES ATILNT Orr-icei PAUL MAUSER, OF OBERNDORF-ON-THE-NECKAR, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE VAFFENFABRIK MAUSER, OF SAME PLACE.

CARTRIDGE-STOF FOR MAGAZINE-GUNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Noo 455,514, dated July '7, 1891.

Application filed November 8, 1890. Serial No. 370.830. (No model.)

T @ZZ whom it may concern: Let A represent the breech-case or receiver Be it known that I, PAUL MAUSER, man uf of a gun; B, the barrel; C, the stock,- a, the facturer, a subject yof the King of lVi'irtembolt, and m the magazine. berg and German Emperor, residing at Obern- 4The two side sheets of the magazine m are 5 5 5 dorf-on-the-Neckar, in the Kingdom of lVrconstructed with their top edges fm2 bent intemberg, German Empire, have invented a wardly and made elastic by suitable cuts in new and useful Improvement in Loading Dethe sides, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. l vices for Breech-Loading Bolt-Guns, of which and 2, as has been heretofore usually done, the following is a specification. so that the uppermost cartridge p in the mag- 6o lo The cylinder-bolt of breech-loading repeatazine is retained therein by the edges m2, but

ing-guns as constructed at present. does not presents itself automatically to the bolt c pull back the cartridge in case the latter was when the latter is fully drawn back, and will not fully brought home within the barrel and be" removed from the magazine and pushed the bolt pulled back prior to fully closing the into the barrel when the bolt a is brought 65 I breech. In such cases a new cartridge comforward and before it has been brought into ing from the magazine enters in front of the its fully closed position. -The uppermost retracted bolt and is pushed either under or cartridge in the magazine m is normally against the iirst cartridge sticking more or kept down in such a position that it cannot Vless deeply in the barrel, thereby interfering rise high enough to present its butt to the 7o 2o with the'proper loading and discharging of bolt (l. To accomplish this, I provide a dethe gun. To obviate these disadvantages tent consisting, preferably, of the top edgem and obstacles to loading by very simple meof the back portion of the lett-side sheet of chanical lneans and without altering essenthe magazine m below the spring m2, which tial parts of the gun and in such a way that edge m -is partly bent inwardly, so that this 75 the improvement may be applied without inprojecting edge m' keeps back the back end ventive action to guns of all patterns is the of the uppermost cartridge and prevents it object of the present invention. from rising into the path of the bolt a so long In the accompanying drawings, representas the edge m is not forced aside to-free the ing a so-called Mauser gun-with a removcartridge. This position of the parts is rep- 8o 3o able cartridge-magazine attached beneath the resented in Fig. l. To release the cartridge, breech, wherein the preferred form of my inprovision is made for forcing aside the edge vention is illustrated, Figure 1 is a fragmentm. This is preferably accomplished by the ary vertical axial section of the breech portumblera,(shown removedin Fig. 5,) mounted tion of the gun in the position occupied when to swing around a stud or rivet n* in the rear 85 the bolt has pushed a cartridge into the barwall o of the magazine m, and having a rel, but before the breech has been fully rounded upper end fas protruding into the closed and before the bolt is turned down to path of the bolt a, to provide for which the 4the right to lock it. Fig. 2 is a similar view, latter has a groove s correspondingly, so that but showing the parts in the fully-closed poit can be pushed freely lengthwise to and fro 9o 4o sition, the bolt being turned down to the right without touching the part n3. The tumbler ready for firing. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of n has two side projections 'n' n2, fitting bethe bolt out on the line l l of Fig. l, showing tween the two side sheets of the magazine in the magazine in rear elevation. Fig. l is a such a way that n rests against the detent fragmentary side elevation of the upper back m of the left-hand side and n2 against the 95 portion ot' the magazine, and Fig. 5 is an enpart m2 or m of the right-hand side. It will larged rear view of the tumbler removed. be seen that if the tumbler n is moved to the Referring to the drawings, in which simileft the left edge m of the magazine is forced lar letters refer io similar parts throughout aside by the projection a. of the tumbler, so the several" figures, I will now describe the that at this moment the cartridge p will be roo 5o preferred form of my invention as applied to released from the edge m and will rise into a Mauser gun.l its normal position against the bottom of the bolt. This position is represented in Fig. 2. As soon as the tumbler nis allowed to return to its normal position the edge m springs back also and, will be ready to retain the next cartridge'in its depressed position afterruption or tooth t .of this cross-groove s',

which tooth t, as the bolt turns moves the top end or of the tumbler to the left again, causing the various proceedings before described as the tumbler is tilted on its pivot, thusperzo mitting the uppermost cart-ridge in the magazine to be released from under the edge rrr and to rise to the position shown in Fig. 2. Before the bolt a has finished turning the tooth t has passed the top end n3 of the tumz 5 bler, which now returns to its normal position by reason of its end n3 entering an indentation or hole s2 onthe bolt a when' the latter reaches its closed position,which indentation s is practically a continuation of the crossgo groove s2. After the discharge of the gun and in turningthe bolt a to the left for opening the breech the tootht moves the tumbler fr to the right, which, having passed the tooth t, returns int-o its normal position. When the 3 5 bolt a has finished its back-stroke, the upper' most cartridge will rise and present itself to the returning action of the bolt a.. W'henever the bolt a is pulled back before it has been fully closed, the next cartridge is prevented 4o from presenting itself to the action of the bolt a,since until the tumbler is tilted by turning the b olt to the closed position the detent in', restraining the cartridge, is not displaced; but if the bolt is once normally closed and then drawn back the uppermost'cartridge of the magazine will always appear in its normal position, its detent having been displaced by the closing operation. s

The application of my invention to the boltguns at present in use does not require an es-v sential alteration of them. The grooves s s s2 can be milled in the bolt a without other changes of the lock mechanism, and the mounting of the tumbler n, as well as the 5 5 small alteration of the side sheets of the magazine m, will in no wayinterfere with the present construction.

It will be understood that instead of using a portion of the side sheet of the magazine m 6o for the spring-edge m a separate spring properly shaped and fastened to the frame of the magazine m may be employed; also, that my invention may be variously modified and may be applied lto various styles of guns without departing from its essential features, and that I do not limit myself to the construction herein set forth, which is the preferred form of my invention.

After having fully described and ascertained the nature of my invention and in whatvmanner the same is to be performed, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is, in bolt-guns, the followingdefined novel features and combinations, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, namely:

l. In a breech-loading bolt-gun, the combination, with the bolt and the cartridge-magazine opening below the bolt, of a detentproj ecting into the path. of the rising cartridges and constructed to prevent the cartridge within the magazine from rising into position for engagement with the bolt, and means constructed to act on said detent and to engage with said bolt and to be operated by the movement of the bolt to the closed position, and thereby to automatically disengage said detent.

2. In a breech-loading bolt-gun, the combination, with the bolt and the Acartridge-magazine, of a detent located adjacent to the magazine and constructed to project into the pat-h of the rising cartridges and to prevent the top cartridge within the magazine from rising into position forI engagement with the bolt, and means for automatically disengaging said detent, consisting of -a tumbler engaging said bolt andY constructed to be operated by the turning movement otl this latter.

3. In a breech-loading bolt-gun, the bolt a, having the grooves s s s2 and the tooth t, and the magazine m, having the projecting spring m far enough below its top to hold the cartrid ge from engagement' with the bolt, in combination with means for disengaging said spring m', and consisting of a tumbler entering said groove in the bolt and operated by the rotation of the latter.

4. In a breech-loading holt-gun, the bolt a., having the grooves s s s2 and the tooth t, and the magazine m, having the proj ectingspring m far enough below its top to hold the cartridge from engagementwith the bolt, in combination with the tumbler n, having projections/n n2 and top n3 entering said grooves s s' s2 and striking said tooth t, all'as and for the purpose set forth.

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In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL MAUSER.

Witnesses:

CARL T. BURoHARDr, OTTO WILHELML 

